If you were given the choice?

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godofallu

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I remember back before this universe was released, and the content was still being created EPIC asked this question to humanity.

Unfortunately more people bought the, everyone dies shirts.
God I wanted to live forever so badly, I even bought the damn shirt.

Oh well everyone knows the majority is generally retarded.
 

TiefBlau

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I shouldn't, and I'd probably suffer more if I chose immortality, but I'd probably take it nonetheless.

Eternal life is a curse, not a gift, but it's perhaps the most tempting curse in the world.
 

Dango

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Well in the scenario that Earth gets completely destroyed and all life is eradicated, drifting through space alone would not make me a happy camper.
 

TheLaofKazi

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Marter said:
No, I wouldn't. I don't want to see everything I love die/get destroyed.
Yeah, I want to get destroyed with it! That's the beauty of life.

No immortality for me.
 

Extraintrovert

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All the issues with this have already been stated, so I won't mention them (except for the "outliving loved ones" argument, which is cliche and fallacious). What I will mention is that as tempting as absolute immortality is and how much I might enjoy it, I wouldn't take it if I was offered it. Being suicidally depressed for several billion years (or however long it takes for reality to collapse) is not something I find appealing.
 

latenightapplepie

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Yes.

I hope I would not go mad, or hurt other people indirectly by being immortal, but the temptation is simply too strong. Maybe it's because I'm single and don't plan on having children, but the idea of outliving my loved ones does not dissuade me.
 

pyrokitsune777

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It depends on the type of immortality. If it's coupled with eternal youth in the then it would be more appealing. But then again I'd still have to know what the other rules are. Could i literally survive everything and still be left standing. Or is it more like the anime Baccanno where your cells reform after a few seconds. Or will i simply be left a pile of dust that happens to be sentient.

I'd be willing to take the gift if it meant that any damage that occurred to my body was completely healed the moment i "died" but it is worth mentioning that it's surprising how many things one can survive.
 

lslines

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No. I wouldn't want to outlive everybody-- I couldn't live as a loner, and making new friends and connections means a never ending flow of people to briefly care for before they die like mayflies. That's the kind of pain I doubt you could adjust to. If it's the kind of immortal where things kill you but you just spring back (a la Claire in Heroes) I wouldn't want to risk getting stuck in a situation where it would be an endless cycle of alive-dying-dead-alive, such as if I was buried alive and had to continually die of suffocation.

If I were immortal without aging, that would be awful. The people you loved would be growing old around you as you stayed endlessly the same, and eventually you would catch the attention of a government agency and spend your life being experimented on.

If I were immortal with aging, that would be... Unspeakably awful.

I don't want to be the last living thing in existence as the universe suffers from heat-death. And what if you survived even beyond that?

It would barely be a life. You'd be driven insane after some amount of time, whether it be two hundred years or two millennia.

...yes, I have thought about this a lot, what's your point?
 

Avelestar

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A lifetime to study the Earth and how it's creatures work? Tempting, but a no. Outliving everyone I love would destroy me, I would only want to live forever if I had to do something to save the world in 1000 years or something.
 

Queen Michael

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Of course I would. And I don't want to hear anobody complaining that "your loved ones would die and leave you!" because first of all, that's gonna happen anyway if I don't live forever, secondly, very few relationships last that long anyway, and secondly, this way they'll live on forever in my memory.
 

linwolf

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Yes, I might regret it later. But if the offer was made, I would never be able to turn it down.
 

Dane Tesston

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I'm at a crossroads. Yes, I'd like to see what, if anything, lies beyond this life, though I'd also like to see how things turn out for little speck of exsistence called humankind. If you pressed me, I'd probably say yes.
 

Not-here-anymore

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RobotNinja said:
Of course. Then I could become God-Emperor and rule the human race for eternity!

Also: 300th post! Yay, only a few thousand more until I beat Furburt
I was like you once. New to the forums, watching my post count grow, and thinking to myself "1 day I'll outdo NeonBob and Furburt! One day! Then I realised that they don't sleep, just spend more time on the escapist.
I'm less bothered about my post count, nowadays.

And yes, I'd take immortality. Curiosity about what the future holds outweighs any emotional attachment I feel to family and friends; that's just what I'm like.
 

Chogg Van Helsing

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Yes i would. I could live for eternity doing whatever i wanted. If they maganged to lock em away, the prison would erode before I did. And I would escape. Thenwhen the reapers come, I'll kill them all 'cause I can. Or assume direct control of them all!
 

Prince Regent

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Yes when ik start reading a book I want to know how it ends and since I started living I want to know how the universe ends.

After that it would probebly suck though.